UH2@psuvm.psu.edu (Lee Sailer) (10/29/90)
A friend of mine is looking for map outline data. He needs state and
county boundaries of Pennsylvania and New York. Rivers, towns, and
other major features would also be a plus.
Can anyone offer us a pointer to how to find such data. It will
eventually end up being used internally by a company, probably printed
by Ventura Publisher or something.
EMAIL appreciated, since I don't usually read this (no doubt interesting 8-)
group.
thanks, leeMark_Stephen_Zaller@cup.portal.com (11/01/90)
The USGS sells a very nice Optical CD ROM with all 50 states that includes counties, rivers, streams, water bodies, major roads and railroads. The disk seems to have about ~100 megs of data with I believe 3 different types of data files. A PC demo program will allow you to graphically look at the data you are interested in, and there is on-disk documentation for the file formats. I bought my disk for $28 from the USGS office in Menlo Park. You can also get the disk by calling the Reston, Virginia office: 800-USA-MAPS. The disk is called: 1:2,000,000 scale Digitial Line Graph (DLG) Data. Mark Zaller Air Venture, Palo Alto, CA Remote Sensing and Analysis
hjp@usenet.umr.edu (Hardy J. Pottinger) (11/06/90)
In article <35443@cup.portal.com> Mark_Stephen_Zaller@cup.portal.com writes: >The USGS sells a very nice Optical CD ROM with all 50 states that includes >... >I bought my disk for $28 from the USGS office in Menlo Park. >You can also get the disk by calling the Reston, Virginia office: 800-USA-MAPS. >The disk is called: 1:2,000,000 scale Digitial Line Graph (DLG) Data. The Data User Services Division of the Bureau of the Census also has data on CD-ROM (TSO standard format) that is derived from USGS 1:100,000 map data and may be a bit more 'object oriented' than USGS files. Call (301) 763-4100 for more info or they have a BBS at (301) 763-1568. I have some old ancient census data that's fairly small (only a few meg) but is not in any standard coordinate system that I'm aware of and isn't much good for anything but drawing state outlines. --Hardy Pottinger, hjp@ee.umr.edu